play the gender card
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To assert that sexism is involved in a situation, especially in order to exploit sexist or antisexist attitudes.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "Oh, I don't wanna play the gender card card right now. You wanna play a card? Let's play the "let's not die" card."
- "What worries me is that she is accused of "playing the gender card" when citing the old boys’ club, while he is seen as unifying by citing civil rights confrontations."
- "[…] the CAS was going to lose two of its best teachers; tolerate a mediocre one who had skillfully played the gender card by hiding behind her pregnancy; and retain an ineffective one."
- "How can you tell the difference between someone playing the gender card and someone actually calling out misogyny when you so obviously have no expertise on the matter?"
Usage
Inflected Forms
plays the gender card (present, singular)
playing the gender card (participle, present)
played the gender card (participle, past)
played the gender card (past)